Hiromi Tango creates sculptures of colorful textiles, neon, and mirrors, then interacts with the pieces as performance art, like this exploration of the amygdala, part of her Dynamic Emotions series.
Sometimes explained as the brain’s smoke detector, the amygdala attaches emotional information to memories, influencing how strongly embedded those memories become, and triggering responses to similar experiences based on those memories. This can play an important role in survival, such as helping us to quickly determine whether a situation might be dangerous, based on past experience. But traumatic memories can cause us to over-react to ordinary situations as well, negatively impacting our daily lives by triggering overwhelming fear or sadness when there is no danger. As an artist, I am able to take license to explore these ideas without the burden of proof. These works builds on the shape of the amygdala, imagined through light sculpture, and the complex interconnections of thousands of fibres that process information in and out of this mysterious centre.
Jason Findley's photography captures the colorful energy of the sculpture and the artist's interaction with it.
In 2009, Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara was hanging out with his business manager Tim Blum in the Manhattan bar Niagrara. Nara pulled out a marker and drew some of his fantastic figures on the walls. (Later that night, he did the same thing at a subway station and was promptly arrested.) Last week, one of […]
In a brilliant move, the Washington Post convinced several Washington Capital players to draw self portraits, most-used emoji, favorite memory, first thing bought after signing their rookie contract, And whatever this is: Check out the rest of the gallery here.
The Deep Dark is a recurring art installation by Caitlind Brown and Wayne Garrett: To develop the installation, the artists conducted interviews, asking: why do we fear the dark? Is darkness a presence or an absence? What separates real fears of nighttime from imaginary fears of things we cannot see? By unearthing commonalities between interviewed […]
There’s overwhelming support for clean energy, and the planet is giving us more reasons to invest in renewable power sources with every passing year. Even in the most inhospitable areas, wind and solar can provide a good chunk of our power, if not all of it. So why aren’t we all taking advantage of it? […]
Hey, we love Netflix and Hulu, but let’s face it: The whole setup doesn’t exactly encourage active viewing. For all the binge-watching we’ve done, it’s tough to expand our horizons or learn anything new – except for how many episodes of “The Office” it takes to make us fall asleep. It was only a matter […]
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